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Monsters
Monster Manual
Life-Draining Root.
Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7);{"diceNotation":"4d8+7", "rollType":"damage
ft. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7);{"diceNotation":"3d8+7", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Thorn Volley", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.
Life-Draining Root. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 20
Spells
Player’s Handbook
modified memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the details of your description. If the spell ends before you finish describing the modified memories, the creature’s memory isn
might deem a modified memory too nonsensical to affect a creature.
A Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature’s true memory.
Using a Higher-Level
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
use of Lightning Discharge.
Unusual Nature. The yggdrasti doesn’t require air or sleep.Multiattack. The yggdrasti makes two Root attacks and uses Lightning Discharge (if available).
Root. Melee
Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Root"} to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d6+5","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Root
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Essence Transfer (1/Day). The professor can cast the animate dead spell, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two Mortality Spear attacks. It can replace one of
until the start of the professor’s next turn.
Essence Pulse (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Essence Pulse"}. The professor creates a life-draining
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
takes a bonus action to turn it back into an inanimate tree. The tree then takes root if possible.
Spellcasting. Turlang casts one of the following spells, requiring no material spell components and
, pass without trace, speak with animals
1/day each: commune with nature (cast as 1 action), conjure woodland beings, hallucinatory terrain (cast as 1 action)A xenophobic, moss-covered treant named Turlang.Bludgeoning, PiercingFire
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
demonic nature of the alkilith, making what should be a dire warning appear strange but otherwise innocuous. Wherever alkiliths take root, they weaken the fabric of reality, creating a portal through
door around which it can take root, stretching its body around the opening and anchoring itself with a sticky secretion. If left undisturbed, the opening becomes attuned to the Abyss and eventually
Blight
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Necromantic energy washes over a creature of your choice that you can see within range, draining moisture and vitality from it. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. The target takes 8d8
and dies.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
necromancy or enchantment school that is 8th level or lower. The bound creature can cast that spell using this pact, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability. When it
the titan doesn’t heal.Daemogoth titans are towering monsters that blight the land around them. A daemogoth grows in power over the course of decades spent feeding on sorrow and draining life from
Modify Memory
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the details of your description. If the spell ends before you have finished describing the modified memories, the creature's memory isn't altered
modified memory too nonsensical to affect a creature in a significant manner.
A remove curse or greater restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature's true memory.
At Higher Levels
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
sleep.
Innate Spellcasting. Rahadin's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence. He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
3/day: misty step, phantom steed
1/day: magic
to put Tatyana out of his mind, Strahd lured more women to the castle, taking several of them as brides before draining their lives and turning them into vampire spawn. Rahadin would see to it that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Blight; on 5–6, Needle Blight; on 7–8, Vine Blight.
Actions
Multiattack. The blight makes two attacks, using Slam or Thorn Volley in any combination. It also uses Life-Draining Root.
Slam. Melee
Attack Roll: +12, reach 10 ft. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) Bludgeoning damage.
Thorn Volley. Ranged Attack Roll: +12, range 60/180 ft. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) Piercing damage.
Life-Draining Root. Constitution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
of the mathematical patterns in nature. Growth and Decay The two deans of Witherbloom are traditionally called the Dean of the Root and the Dean of the Vein. These titles are a somewhat abstract way
of framing the core division in the college’s philosophy: is growth or decay the driving force in nature? The philosophy of the root (growth) focuses on life and its irrepressible drive to thrive. This
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the affected area. If you cast this spell in the same area every day for a year, the spell lasts until dispelled.
The spell creates the following effects within the area. When you cast this spell
magic. A dispel magic cast on the area, if successful, removes only one of the following effects, not the entire area. That spell’s caster chooses which effect to end. Only when all its effects
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
contemplating the beauty and wonders of the multiverse.
2
I am a sworn protector against the depredations of the Far Realm, and I will root out its corruption wherever it may arise.
3
What
surrounding a legendary amethyst dragon’s lair is altered by the dragon’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Background Check. Once per day, the dragon can cast the legend
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shift Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast hallucinatory terrain, requiring no spell components
pool that connects to the caldera lake via an underwater channel. When the volcano is active, the waters here bubble up into the caves before draining down nearby lava tubes. During especially active
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.
Warp Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast mirage arcane, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The dragon
before draining down nearby lava tubes. During especially active periods, the waters surge up into the nearest halls and corridors before draining away.
Underwater Cache. The dragon stashes gold and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
I am never so content as when contemplating the beauty and wonders of the multiverse.
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I am a sworn protector against the depredations of the Far Realm, and I will root out its corruption
dragon’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Background Check. Once per day, the dragon can cast the legend lore spell, requiring no spell components, naming any person, place, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, draining moisture and vitality from it. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. The target takes 8d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This spell has
plant that isn’t a creature, such as a tree or shrub, it doesn’t make a saving throw; it simply withers and dies. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, draining moisture and vitality from it. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. The target takes 8d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This spell has
plant that isn’t a creature, such as a tree or shrub, it doesn’t make a saving throw; it simply withers and dies. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
blood, they cast him out, but Tristen grew enraged and slaughtered the druids, draining them all. The sacred waters of the druids’ rituals had infused their blood, though, making it poison to the half
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Create Homunculus 6th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 hour Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (clay, ash, and mandrake root, all of which the spell consumes, and a jewel-encrusted dagger worth at
means before then, except by the homunculus’s death. You can have only one homunculus at a time. If you cast this spell while your homunculus lives, the spell fails.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
earlier took a cutting from the shambling mound’s root stem, binding it to her service. If a character uses a speak with plants spell to communicate with the shambling mound, it tells the character that
the creature must obey the hag until its stolen root is returned to it. If a character promises to return the root to it, the shambling mound stops attacking and waits here for the characters to come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the details of your
manner. A remove curse or greater restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature’s true memory. At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
Yggdrasti Thought to be cast-off splinters of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, yggdrasti look like gigantic, dead trees covered with barnacles. They fly through Wildspace and the Astral Sea with their
Discharge.
Unusual Nature. The yggdrasti doesn’t require air or sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The yggdrasti makes two Root attacks and uses Lightning Discharge (if available).
Root. Melee Weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the details of your
manner. A remove curse or greater restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature’s true memory. At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
alkilith, making what should be a dire warning appear strange but otherwise innocuous. Wherever alkiliths take root, they weaken the fabric of reality, creating a portal through which even nastier demons can
which it can take root, stretching its body around the opening and anchoring itself with a sticky secretion. If left undisturbed, the opening becomes attuned to the Abyss and eventually becomes a portal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
alkilith, making what should be a dire warning appear strange but otherwise innocuous. Wherever alkiliths take root, they weaken the fabric of reality, creating a portal through which even nastier demons can
invade. The appearance of an alkilith in the world heralds a great wrongness and an imminent catastrophe. An alkilith searches for an aperture such as a window or a door around which it can take root
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, Vellynne can’t drop below 1 hit point. If she is reduced to 1 hit point, she either retreats to somewhere safe or uses her next action to cast vampiric touch, draining the life force of her nearest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
structures are excluded from the affected area. If you cast this spell in the same area every day for a year, the spell lasts until dispelled. The spell creates the following effects within the area. When you
cast this spell, you can specify creatures as friends who are immune to the effects. You can also specify a password that, when spoken aloud, makes the speaker immune to these effects. The entire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
reads in Common, “Knock first before entering.” Using the knocker triggers a glyph of warding spell cast at 8th level. The glyph creates a 20-foot-radius sphere of magical flame. Each creature in the
handle with a successful DC 22 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Shield. The room is empty except for a steel shield hanging on the south wall. The shield is cast in the form of a serene, angelic visage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
event. You must speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the
Restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature’s true memory. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. You can alter the target’s memories of an event that took place up to 7 days ago (level 6 spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
event. You must speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified memories to take root. Its mind fills in any gaps in the
Restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature’s true memory. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. You can alter the target’s memories of an event that took place up to 7 days ago (level 6 spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
transmutation magic around the helm, which is cursed. Once the helm is donned, it can’t be removed until its wearer dies or until a remove curse spell or similar magic is cast on the helm. Any humanoid
swallowed a gemstone called the Eye of the Spider. If the characters pierce the skin clinging to his bones and root through his chest cavity, they find the stone in what was once his stomach. Returning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
that was in the visions. To cast this spell, you must have a magic item that originated on the world you wish to reach, and you must be aware of the world’s existence, even if you don’t know the world’s
name. Your destination in the other world is a safe location within 1 mile of where the magic item was created. Alternatively, you can cast the spell if one of the affected creatures was born on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Sedgemoor Locations The following locations are keyed to map 3.6. All descriptions assume the characters are exploring this area during the day. Area S7 holds the contaminated spring that is the root
has rendered much of the journal unreadable, but what remains reveals sinister thoughts. It’s clear that some nefarious personality has been experimenting with life-draining magic in the marsh and has






